How do I pronounce........

[centurion07]

......the surname "CAUGHIE"? I'm applying for a new job that I REALLY want & therefore don't want to mess things up by getting this woman's name wrong when I phone her. I assume it's a scottish name as they're based in Glasgow (job will be down here in Hampshire tho').

Can one of you helpful lads or lasses provide me with the correct pronunciation? (I can take a guess but it'd be nice to have a definate answer!)

My guesses:

KOFFEE

KOR-HEE

KOW-FEE

KOW-HEE

Thanks in advance!

[McNab]

Haven't a clue!

Names are funny things - Dalziel is dee-ell, Menzies is mingiss, and so on.

You'd really need to find someone who knows a Caughie.
The nearest I can get is haugh (damp low-lying bit of ground usually near a river).

It's pronounced hochhh, just as a loch is pronounced lochhh - not lock!

Koffee (or something near that) is probably your best bet, but as you can see I'm a bit higorant...

[ellejay]

My guess (and it is a guess) would be three sounds..

KO ( as in co from coffee)
CH a good scottish sound ( as in the scottish loch not lock!)
EE as in EEEE!

KO-CHEE when you run it all together

Hope this helps and good luck with the job

[sweatysock]

Used to know a few McCaughies in my old home town. its pronounced Mc, the easy bit, then kaw, chhhh, the bit the english can never say and then ends ay

Mik-kaw-chh-ay, this is diffcult to do in text you know
Subtract the mik bit and there you have it.

cheers,
ss

[jigs]

Caw-Hee.

[mcecm]

I really hope you can say it properly because when it should be KO-CHEE like was said before you might say KO-CKEE and you're new boss might be offended if you call her cocky

[SmokedSausage]

Hi mate, I'm an ignorant englander myself but live up in N jockland. The missus is indigenous to these parts though so i'll ask her later for you. I swear sometimes she speaks a differant language all together. Oh BTW I work with a menzies and he has a dicky fit when you call him "menzies"!!!!!

[minimax]

McNab said:

The nearest I can get is haugh (damp low-lying bit of ground usually near a river). It's pronounced hochhh, just as a loch is pronounced lochhh - not lock!

thats odd - hear in northumberland a haugh is pronounced "half" just like a heugh which is pronounced "hoof" very strange!

[Nicholas Blair]

CAW-HAY